AI-First Data Platform Architect

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned Principal Software Engineer to elevate Town Lake's data platform into the company-wide data infrastructure. You will steer architecture and implement services across the stack, focusing on access control, ingestion, AI-driven classification, governance, and analytics tooling.

You will work with Go, Python, Typescript, and Rust on a Kubernetes-based stack, mentoring engineers and driving high-impact initiatives that touch dozens of teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on designing, building and scaling data infrastructure.
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives in a cross-functional context, working with multiple stakeholders and driving value delivery.
• Extensive experience with data infrastructure at scale, including tools like Trino, Spark, Iceberg/Delta Lake, Kafka, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL
• Experience designing, building and debugging data pipelines at scale
• Proficient using backend languages like Go, Python, Typescript, and Rust, along with SQL
• Excellent analytical skills with focus on data usage by stakeholders
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience creating agentic development workflows and an AI-first mentality

Responsibilities

• Define, design and execute strategic technical architecture for highly visible, highly critical data infrastructure at the company.
• Lead the design and development of tools and infrastructure to improve and scale our data infrastructure at the company.
• Lead the design and development of data pipelines and data products to serve customers throughout the company, including tools to automate delivery of those services.
• Become a subject matter expert across both our data platforms, tools and infrastructures as well as our data itself to guide and enable stakeholders with data needs.
• Work across our tech stack, which includes Kubernetes, Trino, Iceberg, Clickhouse, and PostgreSQL, with software built using Go, Javascript/Typescript, Python, and others.
• Mentor and support junior engineers on the team, reinforcing a culture of exceptional delivery and accountability on the team

Skills

Go

Python

Typescript

SQL

Kubernetes

Rust

Data pipelines

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Trino

Iceberg

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned Principal Software Engineer to elevate Town Lake's data platform into the company-wide data infrastructure. You will steer architecture and implement services across the stack, focusing on access control, ingestion, AI-driven classification, governance, and analytics tooling.

You will work with Go, Python, Typescript, and Rust on a Kubernetes-based stack, mentoring engineers and driving high-impact initiatives that touch dozens of teams.